Wanda Jackson
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"Wanda Lavonne Jackson" is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 1960s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist. She is known to many as the "Queen of Rockabilly" (or "First Lady of Rockabilly").

Jackson mixed country music with fast-moving rockabilly, often recording them on opposite sides of a record. As rockabilly declined in popularity in the mid-1960s, she moved to a successful career in mainstream country music with a string of hits between 1966 and 1973, including "Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine", "A Woman Lives for Love" and "Fancy Satin Pillows".

She has enjoyed a resurgence of popularity among rockabilly Revivalist artist/revivalists in Europe and younger Americana fans, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an Rock and Roll Hall of Fame#Early influences/Early Influence in 2009.

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I liked Little Richard!

But, it was a popular show, and I knew everyone on it, so it was always fun to do.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.

You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.